A cutting garden lets you enjoy flowers indoors while beautifying your outdoor space. Such gardens benefit from perennial blooms, which return year after year.
Peonies are a cutting garden staple with their enormous, fragrant blossoms and rich foliage. Pink, white, and red perennials are available.
Daylily trumpet-shaped flowers come in yellow, orange, red, and pink. They are hardy perennials. They bloom from late spring to early summer, with each flower lasting a day and several buds blooming across weeks.
Black-eyed Susans have bright yellow petals and dark brown cores. For extending the flower season in your cutting garden, these hardy perennials bloom from mid-summer to October.
Coneflowers are loved for their spiky flowers and brilliant purple, pink, and white colors. Butterfly and bee-attracting plants bloom from midsummer to October.
White petals and golden centers make Shasta Daisies a traditional cutting garden flower. Their sturdy, straight stems make them ideal for arranging and bloom late spring to summer.
Russian Sage is prized for its long, airy spikes of lavender-blue flowers throughout midsummer to fall. Its fragrant leaf and brilliant color give flower arrangements a unique texture.
The feathery plumes of pink, crimson, white, and purple astilbe blooms make a wonderful bouquet element.
Blazing Star, or Liatris, has tall, spiky purple, pink, and white blossoms. Its midsummer to fall blooms add vertical interest to flower arrangements.